“He tells us how it is. If he sees something, he’s going to let us know,” Sixers point guard Michael Carter Williams said.

The scores and opponents change nightly, but the message remains the same: No matter how many games the Sixers lose — that week, that month, whatever — Brown is going to impart a sliver of wisdom upon his youthful bunch. For the record, the Sixers (6-11) have dropped nine of 11 games, dating to Nov. 9. They carry a three-game losing streak into Sunday afternoon’s meeting with the Pistons (6-10) in Detroit.

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Fresh off an eye-opening loss to New Orleans, in which the Sixers did very little to merit a victory, the Sixers were in the gym Saturday, attempting to turn the page once more. Just as he had a night earlier, Brown was discussing the virtue of picking one’s head up following a down game. Instead of focusing on winning the game, Brown said, the Sixers should pay attention to winning possessions.

“We’ve got Type As all over the gym, and we’ve got a team we’re trying to get into a possession-per-possession mentality where we play each play,” Brown said, after a spirited session at PCOM. “Whatever the scoreboard reads, the scoreboard reads. They’re going to surprise themselves.

“There is nothing in anything I’m thinking about tanking anything. We’re here to mean it. We’re here to develop. We’re here to demand. We’re here to instill accountability. You don’t just blink and say, ‘Oh, let’s try to do it now.’ That ain’t going to happen. It starts from the get-go. That’s the only way I know how to do. That’s how we’re all wired.”

If the Sixers’ opening to their campaign was the ultimate high, this stretch might represent the other end of the spectrum.

A three-game winning streak to open the season, Brown said, provided tangible reward for the Sixers, following a competitive, grind-it-out training camp. Now the Sixers are mired in a rut that featured only five wins in the month of November.

Still, Brown maintained, the message remains the same.

“As the losses mount, how are you going to handle it?” Brown said. “I hope we’re going to have the same conversation in January or March. We’re not going to leave where we started.”

Added Carter-Williams, who seems to have embodied his coach’s mission statement: “Win or lose, I take each game (one) at a time. It’s not going to affect me that we lost however-many out of how many. That’s not what we’re worried about. If you worry about that, then you’ll continue to lose.”